Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks • Hacker News Board

Was wondering the same. So coding, debugging and anything that has to do with cybersecurity or LLM development is blocked. What tasks are left in which Fable 5 is meaningfully better than the predecessors?

Re: Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks

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Post by lmc » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

exabrial wrote: post #11

crikey just use the real link: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072163884430229756

No thanks

Re: Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks

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Post by exabrial » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

throwawayk7h wrote: post #13

If fable 5 can't do code... what are people using it for?

It's beginning to look like giant publicity stunts. A model that can't do what it says it can, overhyped, no way to test.

Re: Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks

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Post by dude250711 » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

throwawayk7h wrote: post #13

If fable 5 can't do code... what are people using it for?

It's good for pre-IPO PR.

You drop a good old "A new {cool_word}-class model.".

And boom! What are you competitors going to do? Use same classification nomenclature? I don't think so! IPO secured.

Re: Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks

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Post by tapvt » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

Is Opus 4.8 equally or more capabale for the actual mechanics of the coding work?

It seems to me that having a powerful Fable layer for the planning, coordination, orchestration-type work and delegating to a suitable model for the actual execution of "coding tasks" is perfectly appropriate, if that is the case.

Re: Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks

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Post by rvz » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:31 PM UTC

Now that's what I call a scam.

Re: Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

[dupe] Discussion on this and the rest of the source post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771